Canadian Nuclear Labs Award Canadian Waste Management Contract

The Canadian Nuclear Laboratories awarded late last week an $86.8 million contract to construct the Port Granby long-term waste management facility to a joint venture of Amec Foster Wheeler and CB&I, the companies announced. The contract calls for the excavation of legacy low-level radioactive waste from the Port Hope disposal area to the new construction site in Clarington, Ontario. According to the company, “the contract scope involves facility construction, waste excavation, construction of a roadway to permit transportation of the excavated material without using municipal roads, and restoration of the existing and new facility sites.” Work is expected to take five years for the construction of the new facility, and it will begin later this year.